The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, and Marxism's difficulties with the Jewish question, to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books, including The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (both with Jean-Pierre Vernant) and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia).David Ames Curtis is a translator whose credits include works by Cornelius Castoriadis as well as Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Leveque's Cleisthenes the Athenian.